Moles aren’t all bad – they aerate the soil, deposit natural fertilizer and eat grubs that can harm your landscaping. Unless ...

Moles, rats and other animals were lost to science — until now : Short Wave Historic numbers of animals across the globe have become endangered or pushed to extinction. But some of these species ...

Moles in your yard offer benefits like soil aeration, free fertilization, and pest control by eating harmful insect grubs. However, their tunneling activity can create unsightly mounds and uneven ...

De Winton's golden mole (Cryptochloris wintoni) is an elusive blind mole that "swims" through sand, lives in inaccessible burrows and has a shimmering, iridescent coat.It has only ever been ...

The star-nosed mole has one of the "weirdest" snouts in the animal kingdom. Now researchers are uncovering fascinating new insights into this unusual body part.

From the well-known naked mole-rat to the gremlin-looking primate called an aye-aye, here are 13 of the ugliest animals—and the adaptational reasons behind their unsightly characteristics. 1 of 13 ...

De Winton's golden mole was last seen 87 years ago on Port Nolloth beach, a mile long sandy stretch of South Africa's northwest coast. Its survival is threatened by diamond mining in the coastal ...

The naked mole rat may not be much to look at, but it has much to say. The wrinkled, whiskered rodents, which live, like many ants do, in large, underground colonies, have an elaborate vocal ...

Mole animals have very short legs. Their forelegs are great for digging. These limbs are naturally rotated at the elbows — so their palms point toward their rears — and they end in strong ...

Naked mole rats are fertile until they die. Here’s how that can help us. These wrinkly rodents, already known for being resistant to cancer, produce egg cells their whole lives—an extremely ...

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.